Why did the Warring States Wei State decline? Why did Wei perish?

1. The reasons for the decline of Wei in the middle of the Warring States period are as follows:

1. The loss of talents.

During the period of Wei Wenhou, Li Kui, Wu Qi, Le Yang, Ximen Leopard, Zi Xia, Zhai Huang, Wei Cheng and others were appointed to enrich the country and strengthen the army, suppress the Zhao State, destroy Zhongshan, defeat the Qin, Qi and Chu states in succession, open up a large territory, and make the Wei State become the overlord of the Central Plains.

However, when King Wei Hui let go of Shang Yang and asked Sun Bin to blame, Sun Yan and Zhang Yi of Wei were successively reused by King Qin Huiwen, the former broke the Wei army in Diaoyin and beheaded 80,000, and the latter deceived King Wei Hui into ceding Shangjun to Qin with his three-inch tongue. The loss of talent was the key to the decline of the Wei state.

2. Logging everywhere and making too many enemies.

During the reign of Marquis Wen of Wei, Wu Qi put forward the idea of concentrating on resisting Qin and formed the Three Jin Alliance. However, during the reign of Marquis Wu of Wei and King Hui of Wei, the expansion policy of attacking from all sides made the countries suffer from the land plundered by Wei soldiers, and Han and Zhao, who belonged to the Three Jin Dynasty, also resented the suppression of the Wei State, which directly led to the collapse of the Three Jin Alliance, which was painstakingly managed by Wei Wenhou.

3. The geographical location is surrounded by enemies.

Wei is the ** of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, with strong Qi in the east and strong Qin in the west. In the late Warring States period, the Qin state gradually became stronger, and the geographical location of the Wei state became the primary target of the Qin state.

4. The change is not thorough enough.

Wei's reform was much milder than Qin's Shang Ying's reform, but at the same time, the blow to the old aristocracy was much smaller, which also caused the old aristocracy of Wei to be strong, which also seriously affected the feudalization process of Wei.

On the other hand, in the Qin State, the old aristocracy went through the brutal blow of the Shang Dynasty reform, and there were countless people who exterminated the clan and copied the family, but the Qin State greatly accelerated the process of feudalization, and the latecomers overtook the Wei State.

2. Introduction to the State of Wei.

In 453 BC, Zhao Xiangzi, Wei Huanzi and Han Kangzi were divided, and in 403 BC, Wei was officially made a prince by the nominal surviving Zhou Tianzi along with Zhao and Han.

Because Wei was located in the land of the first four wars, the troubled environment and ambition made Wei Wenhou the first monarch to implement the law change and become strong in the Warring States. He used Zhai Huang as the prime minister to reform maladministration; used Le Yang as a general to attack Zhongshan Kingdom; With Li Kui's change of law, teaching the law and scriptures, and governing the country according to law, the Wei State showed a thriving vitality.

In the more than 250 years of history of the Warring States period, Wei was the first strong and powerful country, in 334 BC King Wei Hui and Qi Wei King in Xuzhou Alliance, mutual recognition of each other as kings, known as "Xuzhou Xiang King" in history. However, in the later wars, Wei was "defeated by Qi in the east, lost more than 700 miles of Qin land in the west, and humiliated Chu in the south" and began to decline. It was passed to the king of Wei and was destroyed by the Qin state in the 22nd year of Qin Shi Huang (225 BC).

The reason for the demise of the Three Kingdoms Wei was mainly the heart. Specifically, it refers to the rebellion of the Sima family. In 220 AD, Cao Cao died of illness, Cao Pi succeeded Cao Cao, in 226 AD, Cao Pi died of illness, passed on the throne of Cao Rui, worshiped Sima Yi as a hussar general, but because of the discord of Ma Tan in the Shu Han army, Sima Yi was cut back to his hometown, and then Sima Yi returned to his post because of the siege of Shu Han, and Zhuge Liang also died of illness in Wuzhangyuan.

After Cao Rui died of illness, Cao Shuang passed on the throne, Cao Shuang was Sima Yi **, Sima Yi held the military power, Zhong Hui, Zhong Yu, Deng Ai defected to Wei, Cao Shuang's son Cao Fang was weak, Wei was in danger, after Sima Yi's death, Sima Zhao inherited, after Sima Zhao's death, Sima Shi inherited the throne, after Sima Shi died of illness, Sima Yan succeeded to the throne, in 263 AD, destroyed Shu Han. Jiang Wei dissociates and provokes Zhong to meet with Deng Ai, but Sima Yan suspects and designs to kill the three. In 265 AD, Sima Yan forced Cao Huan to give up the throne, changed the name of the country to Jin, and changed the Yuan to the first year of Taishi.

In the 4th year of Xianning (278 AD), the veteran Yanghu played that Sun Hao, the queen of Wu, was brutal and self-defeating, and made Du Pre the general of Zhennan. In the first year of Taikang (280 AD), the generals Wang Rui and Du pre-attacked Jianye, the capital of Wu, and Sun Hao surrendered. Exactly:

The general trend of Chinese history is unification.

The demise of the Warring States Wei State was due to frequent wars, which greatly weakened the strength of Wei, over the years, under the attack of Qiang Qin, it was defeated and retreated, and constantly cut the land for peace, the territory north of the Great River of Wei was swallowed up, after 3 months of war, the city wall collapsed, the King of Wei faked surrender, was killed by Wang Ben, and the Wei State perished.

Wei (403 BC – 225 BC), one of the Zhou royal vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty and one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. In the history of the Warring States Period, Wei was the first powerful and powerful country, and in 334 BC, King Wei Hui and King Qi Wei met in Xuzhou and recognized each other as kings, known as "King Xuzhou Xiang" in history.

Because of their own problems, in other words, the state is fighting for power and engaging in civil strife, resulting in their lack of unity and being taken advantage of by others.

Wei was actually very powerful in the early Warring States period, the ruler was good at using people and changing the law, and the Central Plains where Wei was located was not easy to defend on all sides, but the ruler used the method of alliance to make friends with Zhao and Han at that time. The decline is also mostly due to the separation of the three countries in the back.